Social Democrat Martin Schulz’s popularity dropped nine percentage points since last month to 30 percent below his predecessor in the leadership of SPD Sigmar Gabriel, according to a new poll.

The poll, which was conducted on behalf of the first channel of German public television ARD, showed that former European Parliament President Martin Schulz’s popularity has reached its nadir while Gabriel is currently the most popular German politician with 62%.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel met on 3 January with the leaders of centre-right Christian Social Union and SPD to prepare preliminary coalition talks starting on Sunday.

Gabriel is followed by co-chair of the Green Party Cem Özdemir (53%) and CDU’s Angela Merkel (52%). The same percentage of Germans (52%) also believes that it would be good for Merkel to remain as Chancellor.

The future of the EU will be one of the key issues for the coalition talks in Berlin, admitted Manfred Weber, the leader the centre-right European Peoples’ Party group and member of the Christian Social Union (CSU) – the Bavarian sister party to the Christian-Democrats (CDU).

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…Schulz made a passionate call for a “United States of Europe” by 2025…
This would include “a new constitutional treaty” that would be submitted to all EU member states for ratification. “Any state that won’t ratify this treaty will automatically leave the EU,” he added.
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